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State Colours of the Austro-Hungarian states, displayed on their flag
Flag
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The list of states, and their flag colors goes:
  • Bohemia
    Bohemia
    Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

    : red-white
  • Lower Austria
    Lower Austria
    Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...

    : blue-yellow
  • Bukowina
    Bukowina
    Bukowina may refer to:*Bukowina, Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Bukowina, Biłgoraj County in Lublin Voivodeship *Bukowina, Piotrków County in Łódź Voivodeship...

    : blue-red
  • Upper Austria
    Upper Austria
    Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...

    : white-red
  • Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

    : red-white-blue
  • Salzburg
    Salzburg
    -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

    : red-white
  • Dalmatia
    Dalmatia
    Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....

    : blue-yellow
  • Schlesien
    Silesia
    Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

    : yellow-black
  • Galicia
    Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria
    Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria - created after 1772 when this previously Polish province had been annexed to Austria. Until 1849 Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria constituted one crownland with Bukovina and used the blue-red flag consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width...

    : blue-red (to 1849), blue-red-yellow (1849-1890), red-white (1890-1918)
  • Transylvania
    Transylvania
    Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...

    : blue-red-yellow
  • Gorizia and Gradisca
    Gorizia and Gradisca
    The County of Gorizia and Gradisca was a Habsburg county in Central Europe, in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo.-Province of the Habsburg Empire:...

    : white-red
  • Slavonia
    Slavonia
    Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia...

    : blue-white-green
  • Istrien
    Istria
    Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...

    : yellow-red-blue
  • Styria: green-white
  • Carinthia
    Carinthia (state)
    Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...

    : red-white
  • Trieste
    Trieste
    Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...

    : red-white-red
  • Krain
    Krain
    Krain is either* Carniola, the original German name of a historical region and duchy of Austria in today's Slovenia.* Krain Township, Minnesota, a township in Minnesota, USA....

    : white-blue-red
  • Tyrol
    Tyrol (state)
    Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of...

    : white-red
  • Mähren
    Mähren
    Mähren is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-Location:The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Westerburg...

    : yellow-red
  • Vorarlberg
    Vorarlberg
    Vorarlberg is the westernmost federal-state of Austria. Although it is the second smallest in terms of area and population , it borders three countries: Germany , Switzerland and Liechtenstein...

    : red-white

Literature

  • Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld: "Die See-Flaggen, National und Provincial-Fahnen sowie Cocarden aller Laender : nach offiziellen Quellen zusammengestellt und bearbeitet", Verlag der kaiserlich-königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, 1883.
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